The analysis by policy research ­centre Future Health, using data from the National Ovarian Cancer Audit, examined ovarian ...

New research shows the idea of the ‘postcode lottery’ was first used in 1997 to express concern about how access to NHS drugs and treatment varied from place to place. But its meaning has since ...

Anna Matheson receives funding from Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand, Te Pūnaha Matatini - the Aotearoa NZ Centre of Research Excellence in complex systems, Health Research Council of New Zealand. In ...

Reforms were supposed to eliminate the 'postcode lottery' for healthcare. But new data shows access to care for people needing a hip or knee replacement still varies massively across the country.

A new analysis reveals a postcode lottery for weight-loss jabs in the South West. Just one in 141 obese people in the region currently have access to NHS weight-loss medication. This is more than ...